Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a "Pet Incinerator"?

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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Phrasing here is what’s weird. Who exactly is the target audience of buyers?

  If they called it “animal crematorium” or “carcass incinerator”, it would make sense for veterinary clinics and farms. Who tf searches for “pet incinerator”?

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  • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The fact that they added the word “custom” to a lot of the ads also raises the question of who’s out there pimping out a pet incinerator.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve gotten some weird ads for random industrial machinery

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• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Morbid as they are, pet incinerators are a reasonable purchase for businesses that need to safely dispose of a deceased animal, such as a veterinary clinic.

  But the optics are dicey for an ad on social media, and even more so when it’s targeting users outside the veterinary industry and features adorable AI-generated images of pets.

  I don’t see why it ever would be a good idea to advertise this on social media. Must be a way to target only clinics.

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or it’s just an automated ad pulling a random product onto so one’s feed based on viewing history. Which then got passed around which caused the algorithm to start spreading the ad

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I suppose if your viewing history includes bulk orders of veterinary supplies, this is probably a decently targeted ad.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meta needs to be destroyed for so many reasons

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• Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t want people to get the wrong idea and click away thinking this is for incinerating the family dog or cat.

  It also works on rabbits.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But how are you supposed to add potatoes and onions?

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• LordMayor@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are these targeted at FBI recruits?

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, FBI wants them for sex, homeland security is the group who wants them dead. All probably to keep any dead pets out of RFKs mouth

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course it’s aliexpress. I suspect it’s automated. I’ve received ads for dental chairs, diggers, skincare lasers, and everything in between while shopping for electrical connectors (deutsch).

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe the target audience is serial killers?

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Let’s be sure to include lots of healthy, well-groomed, cute pet pics in the ad. Also, make sure the animals are sized oddly relative to one another, to give potential buyers no sense of scale. If we don’t know how big this thing is, then neither should they.”

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just bury your pets like a normal person unless they have Ebola.

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  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most people in cities don’t have a garden

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    we had our dog cremated. granted we did not do it ourselves.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      May I ask why?

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Enter Ricky Bobby’s new garage business.

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